Ya know what this game needs? Replays!
As it is right now, everybody is showing off their trap setups with screenshots and videos, which is fine, but I think we could do a step better.
What if there was a way, after playing a level, to save a replay of the level so you could either go back and watch it later, or share it with your friends? You'd be able to either watch the game through their eyes, or freely fly around the stage watching from whatever angle you choose.
I don't know how easily this could be implemented into OMD2 though... maybe that's something best left for OMD3 (if there IS going to be one!)
That would be great if you dont play endless. Its easy to hit 4 or 5 hours on endless, so that is quite a bit for the game to remember in the off chance you want to save it.
What I think could be nice is an option to, if you want, save a replay of your session, and players can see it from the leaderboards.
Yea that's what I was thinking! That brings another thing to mind though... if people save replays of their games, they can prove that they didn't cheat!
That would be great if you dont play endless. Its easy to hit 4 or 5 hours on endless, so that is quite a bit for the game to remember in the off chance you want to save it.
Yea endless might be a bit tricky to program for... I'm not even sure how games like Starcraft and Company of Heroes store replays so they're not a billion gigabytes large, but still being accurate. For instance, an hour-long match in Company of Heroes is stored in a replay file that's only 5 megabytes. Say what???? I mean obviously it isn't storing client-side data like ragdoll animations and particle effects, that stuff can be just re-simulated on the fly with no consequence to the outcome of the game.
EDIT: I should point out that that 5MB replay file is just a file on my computer, it's not like a max or an average or anything.
AFAIK replays record your input and just process them again with the game engine.
Keeps replay files small, but unfortunately patches tend to make previous version replays incompatible and thus obsolete.
Having replays would be great, but that's usually a pretty expensive feature to develop and I don't think it would make much financial sense here. :(
Replays tend to be a much sough after (and thus marketable) feature in PvP games only.
What I think could be nice is an option to, if you want, save a replay of your session, and players can see it from the leaderboards.
Well, why not have more numbers in OMD2?
No really, why not?